It is easier than ever to access and analyze HR and employee data. In this session, Alec Levenson will review a number of common data and survey practices in use today and discuss alternatives that can lead to deeper insights.
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Research and Insights from the Center for Effective Organizations
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The Promise of Big Data for HR
Alec R. Levenson (CEO) argues that “Big data” is all the rage these days. Companies have been making large advances in understanding their customers and markets as we gather more and more information on how people shop, work and live their lives.
Data-Driven Storytelling, 5/13/13
Data-Driven Storytellers help leaders use HR data to have highly interactive dialogues that lead to decisive action that fuels high-impact and measurable business results.
Using HR Analytics for Modeling and Making Sense of Compensation, 12/12, Audio/Slides
In this webinar Alec Levenson reviewed the principles and uses of models as decision making aids, even when there is not enough time or data for doing statistical analysis.
Insights and Learning from Data Coaches
Theresa Welbourne along with Omari Maulana and Lacey Leone McLaughlin, discussed what data coaching is, what it can do, and how it has evolved.
Maximizing the Return on Your Survey and Measurement Work
CEO Senior Research Scientist Alec Levenson spoke about Maximizing the Return on Your Survey and Measurement Work on January 11, 2012.
Conducting Action Research
Alec R. Levenson (CEO) and Wenhong Zhang (Nanjing University) provide a review of and guide to conducting action research: what it is, the benefits of it, examples, and how to do it.
The Economic Analysis of Teams: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
This paper by Alec R. Levenson (CEO) provides an interdisciplinary look at the issues surrounding group-level processes and productivity, comparing the economic and behavioral science literatures and providing suggestions for ways that economists can learn from advances in the behavioral science literature.
The Promise and Peril of HR Data
CEO Research Professor Theresa Welbourne and Kerrian Bard Fournier, Vice President, Head of Human Capital & Analytics, Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc., discussed how to use the data that surrounds us to orchestrate actions that drive measurable business results.
Targeted and Predictive Human Capital Analytics
Alec Levenson spoke on January 20, 2011 about the fact that maximizing the contribution people make to the bottom line is a critical issue for organizations, and analytics are a foundation of those insights.
Using Targeted Analytics to Improve Talent Decisions
Alec R. Levenson (CEO) shares that analytics and metrics offer great potential to improve the quality of decision making on HR and human capital issues in organizations.
Data Coaching: A Cure for HR Data Analysis Paralysis?, 10/27/2010
Theresa Welbourne, CEO Research Professor, and Denise Avink of Northrop Grumman, spoke on October 27, 2010 on Data Coaching: A Cure for HR Data Analysis Paralysis?